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title: Bless you soul! een a little while Buh Rabbit, him drap eh hoe an eh… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bless you soul! een a little while Buh Rabbit, him drap eh hoe an eh holler out: “You right; me bin mose furgit; me comin right off.” Who acts: you, Rabbit, me bin. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5, with its dependen
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 5, sentence 133

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Bless you soul! een a little while Buh Rabbit, him drap eh hoe an eh holler out: “You right; me bin mose furgit; me comin right off.”

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**Who acts:** you, Rabbit, me bin · **What happens:** bless, drap out, mose · **To what, where:** you, hoe, furgit

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Rabbit, me bin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:5:133
# text = Bless you soul! een a little while Buh Rabbit, him drap eh hoe an eh holler out: “You right; me bin mose furgit; me comin right off.”
1	Bless	bless	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
5	een	een	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	obj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	drap	drap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	eh	eh	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hoe	hoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	holler	holler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	conj	_	_
23	right	right	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	compound	_	_
26	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	mose	mose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
28	furgit	furgit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	compound	_	_
31	comin	comin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
32	right	right	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	off	off	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** | imperative | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; me comin *obl*; soul *obj*; een *obj*; Buh Rabbit *advcl*; You *conj*; off, right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drap out** | present | Rabbit | eh hoe |  |  |  | a eh holler *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mose** *in a quote* | present | me bin | furgit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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